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		<title>Erica Stanford’s Takeover of New Zealand Education Continues</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/erica-stanfords-takeover-of-new-zealand-education-continues/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allan Alach]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Turn schools into grades, and you don’t just measure performance — you reshape behaviour. The question is who benefits.]]></description>
		
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		<title>NZ Defends WTO Rules — Except When It Doesn’t</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prof. Jane Kelsey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New Zealand’s role at the WTO is under scrutiny, with critics warning it is helping set a dangerous precedent that undermines global trade rules.]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Iran’s Drone War Will Change the Pacific</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/pacific-brief-how-drone-war-in-iran-changes-the-pacific/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Iran war is a warning for the Pacific — cheap drones and precision weapons are changing warfare, making ‘area denial’ easier and more dangerous than ever.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Simeon Brown and Sam Uffindell can&#8217;t read graphs &#8211; how National mislead you</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/simeon-brown-and-sam-uffindell-cant-read-graphs-how-national-mislead-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Luxon]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sam Uffindell and Simeon Brown misread migration data, falsely claiming National reversed the exodus of New Zealanders.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A tactical revolution in Ukraine?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/ben-morgan-a-tactical-revolution-in-ukraine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ukraine’s evolving drone tactics are reshaping the battlefield and targeting Russia’s oil economy in a slow, strategic war of attrition.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why We Should Still Care About Ukraine in 2026</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/ben-morgan-why-we-should-still-care-about-ukraine-in-2026/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ukraine may have slipped from the headlines, but Russia’s war still matters in 2026 for international law, European security and the rules-based order.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Funny That!</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/funny-that/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in April of 2019 Western media were falling over themselves in fits of apoplexy over this cartoon, by Portuguese...]]></description>
		
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		<title>“Manufacturing consent, sanitising atrocities and platforming war criminals”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Minto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I came across this statement from an independent media source this week “The mainstream media is doing what it always...]]></description>
		
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		<title>We Should be Learning from Finland’s Education System</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allan Alach]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finland’s education system emphasises human development, democracy and lifelong learning. Critics argue New Zealand’s current reforms focus too narrowly on benchmarks and testing.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ben Morgan&#8217;s Pacific Brief: The evolution of land forces in the Pacific: Part Three &#8211; Exercise Hedgehog 2025 – Why it matters for land warfare in the Pacific?</title>
		<link>https://thedailyblog.co.nz/ben-morgans-pacific-brief-the-evolution-of-land-forces-in-the-pacific-part-three-exercise-hedgehog-2025-why-it-matters-for-land-warfare-in-the-pacific/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Morgan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[New technology is changing land combat and last year several NATO armies got an important ‘wake up’ call during Estonia’s...]]></description>
		
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